LAND MASTER 4X4 PROTOTYPE VEHICLES TESTED
The prototype vehicles were made at Trelavour Road Garage, St Dennis,
Cornwall, and were based on Dodge pickup truck parts. The chassis was made
of tubular steel so that when it went over bumps and steep angles, dirt on
top of the chassis rails would fall off, unlike Land Rovers of the time. All
body panels were made of aluminium. Surviving vehicles are very rare, one
Land Master (possibly the only one actually sold to a customer) is rumoured
still to be on the road in Kent, England,(this vehicle which was the third
one built, is still in existence although not on the road) and another is
kept by the original builders at St. Dennis. A very tatty survivor was
spotted near Hexham in Northumberland in the early 1990s and two images of
survivors can be found on the web - though it is currently unclear which
company made them or at what date.